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Tech and communication firms with major cloud storage presence and requirements are driving heavy demand for ‘wholesale’ – or single-user, self contained — data facilities in the Bay Area. With the total size of the global cloud-managed service market expected to double by 2021 the outlook is generally positive for single user facilities.

Sacramento may be a little over 1.5 hours drive (without traffic!) from downtown San Francisco, but Millennials know it isn’t that far away from the Bay Area’s buoyant tech-driven economy.Sacramento’s appeal among Millennials has been well documented and that attraction for a Millennials powerful segment of… Read More

In a recent interview, JLL Northwest market director Elizabeth Hearle pointed to the pace of technological change as one of the biggest challenges facing the commercial real estate sector. She’s clearly not alone in that view. Even outside the world of real estate, there is much to suggest that adoption of technology is speeding up.

Are we about to witness a sublease crisis in San Francisco’s office market? We think it is unlikely in the near term. Here’s why:

Sublease space has increased, reaching 2.27MSF in the last week of March. That’s up from an average of 1.5MSF throughout 2015. While any rise in sublease space is concerning and this amount of… Read More

Overall construction costs for commercial office buildings and tenant improvement projects will continue to rise in the San Francisco Bay Area through 2016 and perhaps as far out as 2020, according to research analyzed by project management experts at JLL.

JLL’s analysis of national and regional labor and materials data suggests that while the price of construction materials is likely to trend downward in 2016 – the result of… Read More

Science fiction has long been a source of inspiration for technology, touching upon our wildest imaginations. From flying cars and artificial intelligence to advanced utopian or dystopian societies, the boundaries for technology in science fiction are limitless. Believe it or not, sci-fi authors have been shaping the future for some time, using their stories as a sort of testing ground to spark the ideas of ambitious… Read More